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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Afraid Life Myself
True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Better True Weird World
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Important Knowledge Ourselves
Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Improvement Lose Moments Myself Possible Profit Time
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Himself People Prayer
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Eyes Forever
The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Business Chief God Life Seek
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action God Influence Life Spirit
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Affection Business Himself Knowledge Religion
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Appearance Charm Holy Soul
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Business Heart Life Love Principle
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

God Ground Preparation Trust Way Yourself
I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Appearance Better Expression Heart Hell Known Sin View
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Fear God Need Trust Yourself

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